Whitehorse Daily Star

May 1, 2008

• Live Words entertain large local audience The Yukon Interpretive Beringia Centre was the venue for a different sort of display Wednesday evening as the Yukon Writers' Festival held its Live Words public reading.
• Rezoning bylaw considered A bylaw to rezone a piece of land in the Taylor Subdivision from Environmental Protection to Industrial Service passed first reading at Monday's city council meeting.
• Post office rule is ludicrous, AYC told HAINES JUNCTION - Yukon MP Larry Bagnell is urging community leaders to continue to protest the recently-implemented Canada Post practice of requiring photo identification for customers dealing with over-the-counter services.
• Buckway headed to Victoria City taxpayers will be footing the bill for Mayor Bev Buckway to represent Whitehorse at the Canadian Capital Cities Organization Conference in Victoria next month.
• Teachers have been trained in Wilson Reading Program Connie Bartlett, a Wilson Reading System trainer from New Mexico, is continuing the training of 13 Yukon teachers in the reading program and will return at the end of May for the final session.
• Test new school's air, MLA urge Mayo-Tatchun MLA Eric Fairclough wants the air quality tested at the new Tantalus School in Carmacks to ensure black mold at the former school has not infiltrated the new building.
• Food bank proponents need funding, location The Food Bank of Whitehorse board of directors met Wednesday evening to discuss plans to open a facility by the fall.
• Skagway looking to boost port activity Skagway Mayor Tom Cochran wants to expand port services in his coastal borough and visited Whitehorse on Wednesday to sell the idea.
• Pole fire cuts power to business A faulty insulator on a high-voltage power line shut down the Trails North Car and Truck Stop for six hours beginning early Wednesday afternoon.

April 30, 2008

• 'I never forget for a second how lucky I am' DAWSON CITY - Ivan Coyote has been pressed for time in April.
• Graffiti? Please doodle it somewhere else DAWSON CITY - Graffiti: the word conjures up different responses from different people. Not even the dictionary definition manages to sound neutral.
• Yukon 'the best place in the world for me' DAWSON CITY - Jerome Stueart has spent the last several years trying to get back to the Yukon after having been here on a Fulbright Scholarship, studying and teaching at Yukon College and then going back to Texas to finish his PhD.
• MP condemns Bush's ANWR remarks U.S. President George W. Bush is in error to suggest drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) should proceed and will help lower gas prices in that country, says Yukon MP Larry Bagnell.
• Yukon River ice bridge officially closed DAWSON CITY - The ice bridge across the Yukon River is officially closed after a week of warmish weather.
• Trial's final arguments underway A two-week civil trial against the Yukon government neared an end Monday after the defence called its final two witnesses.
• Firm is awarded subdivision work Castle Rock Enterprises will be responsible for the underground work and utilities going to the new residential area planned for the former Stan McCowan Arena site in Porter Creek.
• Arrests follow complaint of assault Two men and a woman were arrested early Tuesday morning after Whitehorse RCMP received a call for assistance from a male reporting he had been assaulted.
• Whitehorse volunteers honoured for their work This week is National Volunteer Week.
• 'That car must've been cruising pretty good' A non-fatal accident near the intersection of Industrial Road and Two Mile Hill left commuters backed-up and re-routed for four hours Tuesday afternoon and evening.
• Council defers decision on cemetery master plan City council will wait another month before deciding what the future holds for the Grey Mountain Cemetery.
• All the kind words and the donations keep on coming Ed. note: this is an update on the cross-Canada hand-cycling trip Ramesh Ferris launched from Whitehorse on April 10, and from Victoria on April 12 to raise money in the fight against polio.
• Shipyards Park buildings contract let The city has awarded Grey Wolf Builders a $417,000-contract to fix up the three heritage buildings in Shipyards Park.
• Lower bench work awarded UMA Engineering will be responsible for the preliminary planning and engineering pre-design work on the Porter Creek lower bench after city council voted in favour of awarding the $666,189 contract to the company at its regular meeting Monday.
• Council defers decision on Yukon Gardens fate City council put off its decision on the fate of Yukon Gardens at its regular meeting Monday night, following "significant" concerns sited by Coun. Doug Graham.
• Carmacks pushing for heavy traffic bypass Carmacks residents have been given the "wait and see" line from the Yukon government on the fate of a long-awaited bypass road in their community.
• Young people immersed in workplace safety The Yukon Federation of Labour is working toward ensuring the safety of youth in the workplace.
• Regulations crippling volunteer fire service: chief HAINES JUNCTION - Jim Regimbal, president of the Association of Yukon Fire Chiefs, fears volunteer firefighting organizations have been brought to a "tipping point" in their ability to comply with regulations and still get the job done.
• Bus owner let out of contract The Yukon government has decided to release Takhini Transport from its Whitehorse school bus contract a year early.

April 29, 2008

• Air North announces route to Queen Charlotte Islands Air North will be putting its expertise with wilderness air and cargo service to use in its new partnership with a lodge in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands.
• Ski society makes pitch for funding on eve of meeting It remains unknown whether the city's only snowboard/ski hill will get city funding next year, but Mount Sima users may have a better idea of what the future holds for the hill tonight.
• Constituent lost medical treatment, Hardy says Alleging Health Minister Brad Cathers failed to respond to two letters he wrote regarding the discontinuation of a constituent's medical treatment, NDP Leader Todd Hardy took the issue to the house floor Monday.Constituent lost medical treatment, Hardy says
• Regulation of health professionals proposed Public consultation has begun on regulations for two groups of Yukon health care professionals: psychiatric nurses and medical laboratory technologists.
• 'We must learn from the lessons of the past' Gracing the main foyer of the Yukon government administration building is a memorial for the countless workers injured or killed on the job.
• Private developer urged for Porter Creek D Development of Porter Creek D could be finished quickly if it was contracted out to a private developer, says a Whitehorse city councillor.
• Coliforms detected in school's water supply The detection of coliforms in the water at the Golden Horn Elementary School has students and staff drinking bottled water for now.